Well, how to start this... I'm a very big fan of Neil Gaiman, have read several books including this one "Coraline", and absolutely loved it, the book has the right amount of humor, the foggy sense of being lost and having to deal with it head on, besides, it has a great cast of odd characters. Overall the book is a good novel not just for children, and when I heard there was going to be a movie about it a big smile crept into my face. I have seen Mirrormask (2005), the actual first movie of Neil Gaiman with the illustrations of Dave McKean (I just love the guy ^-^, both of them), it has wonderful imagery, if you haven't seen it yet, and you enjoy good out of the common things, please see it, a must.
I couldn't help but notice a similarity between the two, both girls and both having to deal with growing up and facing up to the challenge, really dark atmosphere, the mother issues, cats, other parallel worlds where everything is strange but familiar, well etc.
So now you can imagine how I felt, I thought "it has to be visually impressive as Mirrormask is, or even better". I hurried the next day to see the
trailer on and what I found left me, well, sad... The story is mainly the same: girl who finds another world that appears to be similar but it's another one, one very different from hers and she has to save the people she cares about. Ok, so far so good, but... they added characters and appears as if some where removed, the stop motion, good idea, not the look that fits the story best in my opinion, I just feel like it's going to be another Disney movie, soft, predictable, boring. Oh, and what's with the whole american family thing, in the book they are brittish and talk english like britts, the dark humors that surrounds the whole experience it's been replaced by "the neighbore boy" that the director took the liberty of adding in, I cannot belive the straight face of Neil when he says he understood perfectly why that character had to appear, come on.
I recomend reading the book, or if your going to see the movie, come on read the book it's better.
